Quotes about word-of-god

Get rid of pride it'll only ride you to the wrong side of life. May God's words guide your faith to abide in true humility. Kick off pride embrace humility!

Some think that authority over the devil belongs to only a few chosen people to whom God has given special power. It doesn’t it belongs to all the children of God.

God’s Word not only gives authority to one’s ministry it provides a solid foundation for one’s life.

We wish to be watered we must daily mediate on the word of God.

God’s on your side be on God’s side!

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

All our time spent making lists would be better spent painting, or writing, Or singing, or learning to speak stories. Sometimes I feel as though the Church has a kind of pity for Scripture, Always having to come behind it and explain everything, put everything into actionable steps, acronyms and hidden secrets, as though the original writers, and for that matter the Holy Spirit Who worked in the lives of the original writers, were a bunch of you literate hillbillies. I think the methodology God

2 Timothy 3:16 says the speaker, instructs us, to draw from the Word of God for doctrine – what is right. He instructs us to draw from the Bible for reproof – pointing out what is wrong – as well as correction that will tell people how to get right. Last, the Word also gives us instruction in how to stay right.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house.

If we are to have real faith, we must study the Word of God and discover what is promised. Then, we must simply believe the promises of God. Trying to believe something that you want to believe is not faith. Believing what God says in His Word is faith.

Despite the huge crowd, He speaks to His disciples as though no one else is there.

If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on

So highly revered was commingle, that the Jews called him "the beauty of the Law".

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

I have established my throne in heaven, and my kingdom rules over all. The day is mine, and mine also the night; I established the sun and moon. I set all the boundaries of the earth; I made both summer and winter. The earth is mine, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. All things are from me and through me and to me.

I do whatever pleases me, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths. As I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will stand. I am your Father. You are the clay, I am the potter; you are all the work of my hand. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

Only my people can receive my glory and dwell with me in the holy city. Only those who are holy can be my people, and they may inherit eternal life. Only those who obey my commands can be holy, and they may be watched over by me. Only those who understand my word can obey my commands, and they may have the splendor of wisdom.

You are aliens and strangers in my sight, as were all your forefathers. You are of few days and full of trouble. You spring up like a flower and wither away; like a fleeting shadow, you do not endure. I raise the poor from the dust and lift the needy from the ash heap. I foil the plans of the nations; I thwart the purposes of the peoples.

I am exalted over all the nations, my glory above the heavens. Splendor and majesty are before me; strength and glory are in my sanctuary. I wrap myself in light as with a garment; I stretch out the heavens like a tent and lay the beams of my upper chambers on their waters. I make the clouds my chariot and ride on the wings of the wind. I make winds my messengers, flames of fire my servants. The heavens declare my glory; the skies proclaim the work of my hands.

I created you in my own image to make for myself a glorious name. You were clean at the beginning, but you defiled yourselves with sins and became sons of the darkness. However, I am gracious and compassionate. I will redeem my people and establish my kingdom. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of my glory, as the waters cover the sea.

I alone stretch out the heavens and tread on the waves of the sea. My way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of my feet. My arm is endued with power; my hand is strong, my right hand exalted. Death is naked before me; destruction lies uncovered. Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth. Every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to me.

I am the Maker of all things. By my word were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of my mouth. I spread out the northern skies over empty space; I suspend the earth over nothing. I clothe you with skin and flesh and knit you together with bones and sinews. I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster.

I am the true God; I am the living God, the eternal King. I am the Most High over all the earth; I am exalted far above all gods. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of my throne; love and faithfulness go before me. My plans stand firm forever, the purposes of my heart through all generations. The heavens proclaim my righteousness, and all the peoples see my glory.

I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God. I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols. Keep yourselves from idols. Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them; do not provoke me to anger with what your hands have made. For I am a consuming fire, a jealous God.

He speaks the words of a distant prophet as though He has written the words Himself.

God showed me something that day. It’s not about me. It’s not about how strong or how weak I am. It’s about speaking and declaring the WORD over someone else. What did God say about this issue? It’s about how strong God is, despite my weakness.I challenge you today, if you are sick – pray for the sick.If you are hurt – pray for the hurting.If you are lacking – pray for someone else’s abundant supply.Don’t run from your weakness – use it to heal someone else!Speak the Word – and sit back and watc

Believe everything the Word says about you

The word of God is more powerful when put into action than when only spoken.

The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it is tainted.

I'm Jewish in the way Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don't view our faith through the eyes of culture.

When God speaks faith has to connect to His Word because if you allow only your feelings to connect no root can be formed.

If we cannot all FEEL alike, we can all FEED alike on the Bread Life.

Wherever the Word of God is hidden or ignored, there will be certain destruction.

The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.

The saddest words I can ever imagine would be to hear the Lord say, “I never knew you. Away from Me” [Matthew 7:23 NIV].

It often takes a tragedy to open our hearts, minds, and wills to the truth of God’s Word.

While those around you are filling their minds with the bad news about man in their daily papers, steep yourself in the good news about God in His precious Word!

Don’t argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God’s Word.

We need to fortify ourselves with the Word of God.

I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.

Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve.

[God the Spirit] will never lead you contrary to the Word of God. I hear people saying, “The Lord led me to do this . . .” I am always a little suspicious unless what the Lord has said is in keeping with His Word.

Your spiritual life needs food . . . where do you find [this]? In the Bible, the Word of God. The Bible reveals Christ, who is the Bread of Life for your hungry soul, and the Water of Life for your thirsty heart.

God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word.

As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.

Nothing will help us grow spiritually more than spending time alone with God every day, reading His Word and praying. Time alone with God is essential to our spiritual welfare.

The Old Testament may not seem relevant to us today—but it is, because it is part of God’s Holy Word, and He has much to teach us through its pages.

Through the written Word we discover the Living Word—Jesus Christ.

God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to His Word. But the opposite is also true: God always leads us to do everything that is in agreement with His Word.

The Word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.

Who can tell us how to get along with each other better than God? Where can we turn for wisdom better than God’s Word, the Bible?

O God! There are many things in [the Bible] I do not understand . . . I am going to accept this as Thy Word—by faith! I’m going to allow faith to go beyond my intellectual questions and doubts, and I will believe this to be Your inspired Word.

A computer . . . has no worth unless it is programmed . . . The believer has tremendous potential, but that potential cannot be used until he is programmed with the Word of God.

The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and makes the child of God.

When I quote Scripture, I know I am quoting the very Word of God.

Scientific discoveries (not theories) are found more and more to fit into the record God has given us in His Word.

The fact that God is infinite makes the study of His Word a lifetime occupation.

Oh that we would hunger to be filled with the Word of God; for there is no greater armor, no greater strength, no greater assurance that He is with us, and in us, when we go forth in battle equipped and nourished by His instruction and determined to stand firm on His promises.

God and God’s Word are inseparable.

We need to encourage new believers to feed on God’s Word—it is nourishment for the soul.

... the scriptures... when properly examined and rightly divided, do not portray Jesus as a poverty-stricken individual. On the contrary, Jesus is seen as a Man whose needs were met and who was regularly involved in meeting the needs of others.

God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

(The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures' authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.

I believe The Bible is the infallible inspired inerrant Word of The Living God and scientifically accurate in every detail.

We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.

A heroine makes progress against an enemy who would manipulate her thoughts when she begins to probe his and see weakness.

Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the author challenges that the theologian is not to correct the notebooks of the biblical writers like some high school teacher. Instead, our theology is always subject to what THEY say, as we willingly submit our notebooks for their approval.

The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says that by reading a few short verses, we are like someone glimpsing nature through window from across the room. But by taking in more lengthy passages of Scripture, we are like someone who, intrigue, gets right next to the window to take in more of the view that it offers, basking in more of the arc of the whole the whole narrative.

It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

The Word of God is Spirit-taught words.

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

The highest view of the Scriptures is not the one that seeks to make an idol of the Bible (biblicism), but the one that allows the biblical text to exalt Christ as the living Word over all creation. The Word became flesh, not ink.

Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will.

Once again the Scriptures are a lodestar, a benchmark, the plumb line steadies us and steers us clear of what is happening in the world and gives us a glimpse of history and politics, economics and daily experiences from God's point of view. Going back to this mother lode of wisdom and knowledge, inspired by God, brings grace and further insight not found in other devotional materials.

The word of God, softens every harden heart.

Until God’s Word becomes a Picture that you can see, it cannot become a reality in which you can feature.

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

Christians should read and meditate the upon the Word of God which sustains and directs their spiritual lives.

The Word of God is not divine, it is an attribute of The Divine.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Believers who come to know the Scripture in a living way, in both knowledge and Spirit, can in turn, use this Word to minister to people around them.

The Spirit and theWord must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusionsalso. If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

You don't have to be surprised when the end comes - just read the Word of God and get the full scoop!

We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.

God uses language to create and command us.

If we read the Word of God, we shall know the will of God.

Quoting from Thomas MertonDialogues With SilenceThe true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate the words that will transform his darkness into light. He does not even anticipate a special kind of transformation. He does not demand light instead of darkness. He waits on the Word of God in silence, and, when he is answered it is not so much by a w

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

Renew your mind with word of God.

Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

I understood that I was being shown the future: shards of what would come to be. Often, I cried out for the pain of it. But other times, I was comforted, because I saw, for an instant, the pattern of the whole.

I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.George Foreman